All Mono did for me was get me re-interested in Java. :-/ After all not only is C# only a minor improvement on J2SE 1.4, Mono's GTK# is just functionallyequivalent to the (under-hyped) Java-Gnome project.

But here's the kicker: Java is easily available for Fedora Core 3 and Mono isn't. :-(

So no Tomboy, Blam! or Gossip for us FC3 users (one of the most common Linux distros). But I do get RSSOwl - oh, and that's it. :-(

Thursday, March 10, 2005

SXEmacs, XEmacs and Emacs

You know XEmacs doesn't seem to have changed much in years. Now I hear via Dino and LWN and that Steve Youngs has started SXEmacs. Interesting. Also of note, FSF Emacs 22 includes GTK support (the first time since the GTK1 patch for XEmacs which wasn't particularly stable).

OK, so I'm not the biggest Sci-Fi fan in geekdom. I like it, but I'm not some sad obsessive. (I hate Star Wars and all the new Star Treks).

Sci-Fi done right(TM) or inordinately badly (original Star Trek, anything British...) does interest me, so I'm really looking forward to Dr Who (which the BBC have started pushing) with the most excellent Christopher Ecclestone and the H2G2 movie (which looks really good in the QuickTime preview).

I installed Fedora Core 3 on sylvester last night, meaning that all my machines run the same distro once more. Sure testing Ubuntu and Mandrakelinux have been fun diversions but with limited time, and with Fedora Core 3 being excellent (RHEL 4 is based on it) and similar to my day job, I've come back round to the total Red Hat/Fedora camp.

Red Hat probably lost a some people over the switch to RHEL v Fedora, but I suspect a large proportion to come back since Fedora is a stonking distro and RHEL (and the cheapo respins like CentOS) are fantastically stable server OS which are dead easy to administer.

Sunday, March 06, 2005

One of the things I like about the evil OS XP, is Hibernate. So I thought I'd experiment with Software Suspend on my home workstation, tom.

Dumb move. That's the worst xfs_repair, I've ever had to do, I had to do a '-L' which basically means, kiss your journal goodbye. Arse.

Well the machine still works (although not 100%). I've some investigating to do as rpm -qVa reports everything as untestable in some way; gdm is borked in some fashion and other things just ain't right.

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

For CD-Rs that means burning a separate one for each "type" of machine (we only really have two types, but what about swap? - we still do that proportional to memory. I sense a standards change coming on :-).

So, in general I'm happy that we can move away from the crap that is floppy disks. (I've never really used them myself). The irony being that I bought 20 yesterday, as we'd run out of the damned things. Sigh.